Success4kids
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331034122
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6024020463
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,295
- Expenses
- $6,039
- Assets
- $25,243
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jerry Bernard (President)
People named in this filing
- Jerry Bernard (President)
- Karri Fellars (Treasurer)
- Don Stewart (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
S4K promotes and assists in the organization and operation of after school handball activities for any students willing to participate. Organized, aftershool handball, promotes good physical health and strong mental discipline as well as positive sportsmanship. After school handball provides students with an opportunity to engage in productive and healthy physical activity that promotes camaraderie and goodwill. Group activities such as the sport of handball also provides an opportunity to access other resources such as mentoring, tutors, and recruitment for higher education such as ASU's "Homework and Handball" program.
What it reported doing in 2025
S4K supports high School handball activities and related competition including out of town tournaments. Promoting handball activities and participation in state, regional and national tournaments provides the high school students an opportunity to expand personal growth and values for long term success.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 46% for direct work, and 54% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 72.9%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.18; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.2% of revenue deployed · 72.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.